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Pakistani newspaper mistakenly prints AI prompt with the article

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444 points wg0 | 2 comments | 12 Nov 25 11:17 UTC | HN request time: 0.014s | source
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guytv ◴[12 Nov 25 13:34 UTC] No.45899936[source]▶
Which raises the question: if everything is generated, why bother reading it at all? Just ask the LLM what you want to know—why treat headlines like bookmarks?
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1. visarga ◴[12 Nov 25 16:46 UTC] No.45902369[source]▶
You can use the LLM, but you don't also have the rest of the data they relied on. A LLM can generate everything if it starts from a minimal prompt, but this is a recipe for slop. If you come with materials, discuss them, their implications, express your POV and then generate, the article will reflect your ideas and the data if was fed.

I know it is fashionable to put everything a LLM outputs in the slop box, but I don't think it reflects reality.

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2. latexr ◴[12 Nov 25 17:09 UTC] No.45902680[source]▶
> If you come with materials, discuss them, their implications, express your POV and then generate

Then the LLM can still make shit up and be absolutely wrong.